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Sappers running to the scene of a Qassam strike at Sapir College in Sderot on Thursday. (AP)
Last update - 00:12 02/03/2008
5 hurt in Ashkelon as close to 50 rockets hit southern Israel
By Mijal Grinberg and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Tags: Qassams, Sderot, Avi Dichter 

Five Israelis were wounded in two separate strikes on the southern port town of Ashkelon on Saturday, as Palestinian militants in Gaza launched close to rockets at southern Israel over the course of the day.

Some 37 of the rockets fired were Grad-type missiles and Qassams and the rest were mortar shells.

Meanwhile the Palestinian death toll in clashes with Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip climbed to 61, since the operation to halt rocket fire began in the morning hours.
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Two rockets hit southern Israel on Saturday evening, one striking directly into a house in Sderot and the other an open field. The house was empty at the time of the strike.

On Saturday afternoon, three people were wounded when rockets hit the marina in Ashkelon, some 15 kilometers from the Gaza Strip. One of the three sustained moderate wounds, while the other two were lightly hurt. A number of people at the scene of the attack were treated for shock.

Earlier, four rockets slammed into the town, one of which scored a direct hit on a house. The three other rockets hit a residential neighborhood.

Two people were wounded while two more were treated for shock. One car was left burning nearby.

Israel Radio said the wounded from the first strike were treated at Barzilai Medical Center in the city, which was itself the target of a rocket strike earlier in the week.

A rocket also struck a building in the educational youth village of "Kfar Silver," causing damage to a structure.

Although authorities have recently wired the city to the "Code Red" early warning system, residents have complained that they were unable to hear its activation, Israel Radio reported.

In response to the barrage on Saturday, the IDF's Home Front Command expanded the number of communities in the Ashkelon area to be wired to the warning system.

The system has now been activated in the nearby communities of Bat Hadar, Beit Shikma, Talmei Yafeh, Gia, Briha, Misha'an and Kfar Silver. It will operate from existing loudspeakers in the towns.

Meanwhile, the Israel Air Force on Saturday evening bombed a truck in the northern Gaza Strip carrying at least 160 rockets ready for launching at Israel.

'We didn't expect to come to a place where there is a war'

Resident Walter Greenberg was not at home at the time a rocket slammed into his home, where his parents were staying. Greenberg told Haaretz that he received a telephone call from his parents, who were hard-pressed to describe what had just transpired.

"My father suffers from post-traumatic epilepsy and I'm very anxious about his situation," Greenberg, a man in his 20s, said. "Both of my parents were taken to a hotel in the city by the welfare services. Five years ago, we made aliyah from Argentina. We didn't expect to come to a place where there is a war. The thought that our house would get hit never occurred to us."

Ashkelon residents said that beginning Saturday night, they plan to block highways and demonstrate in protest of the ongoing rocket fire.

"The people in this city will not agree to pay the price that the residents of Sderot have paid in recent years," Ashkelon resident Maxim Attias said.

"The protest and the opposition to the situation needs to start now. Otherwise, we will come down with a case of battle shock just like the residents of Sderot, who have already lost their stamina."

Local police have called in reinforcements since Thursday, when Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced that Ashkelon would be equipped with the "Color Red" early warning system. The Ashkelon police station has added dozens of police officers from the local district and from the national headquarters.

"There's growing rage among the residents which is understandable and we will allow them to express it within the rule of law," Haim Blumenfeld, the commander of the Ashkelon police station, said.

Ashkelonites said they plan on demonstrating in front of the home of Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, who himself resides in the city.

Friday strikes

On Friday, Palestinians fired at least 13 rockets at Sderot, according to Israel Radio, one of which lightly wounded a man when it hit a house in the Negev town.

Two other residents were treated for shock after the rocket attack.

Gaza militants also fired six mortar shells at Sderot on Friday.

Later in the day, a Qassam struck a street in the rocket-battered town, lightly hurting a woman and causing property damage, after which a number of bystanders were treated for shock.

One of the rockets struck near a group of MKs from Yisrael Beiteinu, including the right-wing party's chairman Avigdor Lieberman, who were visiting the area, Army Radio reported. There were no casualties.

Lieberman and his party members plan to stay in the western Negev until the end of next week, in order to express solidarity with local residents.

During the visit, the former minister called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to hold Sunday's cabinet meeting in Sderot instead of in Jerusalem, where it usually takes place.

Hundreds of residents from the center of the country traveled to the Negev town on Friday to express solidarity with the residents, far fewer than the tens of thousands who visited last Friday.

The Code Red rocket alert system was activated in Ashkelon on Friday, a day after Palestinians fired about a dozen Grad rockets on the southern port city, including one that scored a direct hit on a residential building.

However, the city is not prepared for continued rocket barrages, Mayor Roni Mehatzri said Friday. He said the authorities were not ready to treat large numbers of shock victims and that the local hospital was not reinforced against rockets.

"It's a city of 120,000 people, with large facilities - a huge soccer stadium, and a basketball stadium, and a beach," Mehatzri told Israel Radio. "No one is ready for this."

The deputy director of Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon has asked for fortifications for his emergency room, maternity ward and surgery departments.

One of the rockets fired at Ashkelon on Thursday also scored a direct hit on an apartment building. A 17-year-old girl was lightly hurt in the rocket attacks and several others suffered from shock.

Dozens of soldiers in orange berets from the IDF's Home Front Command arrived in Ashkelon on Friday and hung posters around the city instructing residents on what to do in case of a rocket attack.

Speaking to Israel Radio on Friday, Colonel Felix Sofer of the Home Front Command advised Asheklon residents whose apartments do not have built-in safe rooms that they should designate a room away from outside walls as the place to go within 15 seconds of hearing the alert.

The alert system is already in place in the Qassam-battered western Negev city of Sderot. The system was also installed in Ashkelon in preparation for wide-ranging rocket attacks, but it was never activated.

"We want a warning system, like they have in Sderot," one resident, Moshe Nissim, told Channel 2 television. "We have no protection from Palestinian attacks."

Israeli official: Ashkelon rockets were Iranian-made

A senior Israeli security official said Thursday that the rockets fired into Ashkelon so far were Iranian-made imports, with a range of about 22 kilometers (14 miles), although the military said some locally made rockets have fallen into the southern outskirts of the city.

The Grads are taken apart, smuggled into Gaza through tunnels and reassembled, and Hamas has only a limited supply, the official said on condition of anonymity, in line with briefing regulations.

However, Hamas is rapidly upgrading its Qassams, which it can mass-produce in Gaza.

Some 30 Qassam rockets also struck the Negev town of Sderot and the surrounding communities Thursday. A 70-year-old woman and a bodyguard of Public Security Minister Avi Dichter sustained minor shrapnel wounds.

The bodyguard was wounded when a Qassam hit Sapir College on the outskirts of Sderot, where a 47-year-old man was killed Wednesday in a a similar attack.

Three of the ministry's guards had arrived at the college just before a planned visit by Dichter, when the Red Color alert sounded. They were taking shelter when the Qassam exploded nearby.

At nightfall Thursday, Hamas said it had fired 82 rockets since Wednesday, including 51 at Sderot.

IDF: Hamas to have unlimited supply of rockets targeting Ashkelon by end of 2008

Hamas will likely be able to expand the range of its home-made rockets to 20 kilometers (12 miles) by the end of the year, an Israeli security official said Thursday.

Such an upgrade could give Hamas an unlimited supply of rockets for targeting the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon, which encompasses a range of 10 to 17 kilometers (6 - 11 miles) from the Gaza Strip, and houses 110,000 residents, military analysts said.

The IDF said Hamas' rockets, which started out with a range of 7-8 kilometers (4-5 miles) in 2001, now have a reach of up to 16 kilometers (10 miles). The rockets are widely referred to as Qassams because they were developed by Hamas' militant group's military wing, Izzedine al Qassam.

"We are doing our best to upgrade our capabilities," said Abu Obeida, a spokesman for Izzedine al Qassam. "We will never have equipment comparable to our enemy, but we are working all the time to have enough to make any aggression a regrettable adventure for the enemy."

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      2.   GAZA Rockets Olmert & Rice"s responsibility 15:34  |  Natallie Durson 28/02/08
      3.   The city of Ashkelon. 15:46  |  Jean Van Daem 28/02/08
      4.   Olmert using Sderot, Ashkelaon as human shields 15:49  |  Jonathan S 28/02/08
      5.   Restraint important to gov`t due to very successful peace process 15:52  |  Sam 28/02/08
      6.   olmert is good on missiles 15:56  |  marcel 28/02/08
      7.   Create Timeline for full Israeli Isolation 15:59  |  Rightster 28/02/08
      8.   Collective punishment against civilians by Israel is to blame 16:00  |  POP 28/02/08
      9.   what would Rabin have done? 16:00  |  eddie 28/02/08
      10.   the problem is Ray ..... 16:04  |  Silkey 28/02/08
      11.   Can`t be ! Didn`t you tell us..... 16:23  |  Shlomo 28/02/08
      12.   what are they waiting for? A dirty bomb? 16:31  |  jewish doctor 28/02/08
      13.   Unlimited supply? 16:31  |  Jacob Blues 28/02/08
      14.   No intelligent person 16:33  |  Barry 28/02/08
      15.   Israel should impose restrictions of vehicle movements in Gaza 16:36  |  Rafi 28/02/08
      16.   hey little pop bottle type rockets huh, not likely 16:37  |  Robert/Montreal 28/02/08
      17.   DON"T WORRY- THEY KILL THEIR OWN 16:42  |  dav zee 28/02/08
      18.   Rockets hit Ashkelon House 16:45  |  Millicent 28/02/08
      19.   Remember a Few Years Ago... 16:46  |  Peter 28/02/08
      20.   GAZA Rockets right wing responsibility 16:55  |  Northern 28/02/08
      21.   Declare War on Gaza 16:56  |  Ben 28/02/08
      22.   we should target hamas leaders now 16:56  |  ev 28/02/08
      23.   A baby and 3 children,10,12,14 years were killed yesterday by idf 16:59  |  lakshmi 28/02/08
      24.   Once upon a time there Israeli leaders who would never allow this 17:01  |  Cynic 28/02/08
      25.   Olmert how many have to die or get hurt before you invade Gaza 17:05  |  Shepherd 28/02/08
      26.   Olmert how many have to die or get hurt before you invade Gaza 17:05  |  Shepherd 28/02/08
      27.   Turkey in Iraq 17:14  |  B 28/02/08
      28.   The rulers of Hamastan will pay for what they have done! How sad 17:15  |  Ovadia 28/02/08
      29.   Really POP#8 - it would be just Jew hatred, huh? 17:15  |  William 28/02/08
      30.   Olmert the sitting duck 17:17  |  de Jong 28/02/08
      31.   #12 17:18  |  B 28/02/08
      32.   Natallie.......yaaaaawn! 17:20  |  Karl 28/02/08
      33.   #14 17:20  |  B 28/02/08
      34.   WE don`t deserve a country 17:22  |  Dawn 28/02/08
      35.   Mr. Dichter said (Part 1) 17:23  |  Jimmie 28/02/08
      36.   #8 17:25  |  B 28/02/08
      37.   Why oh why...? 17:29  |  Esther 28/02/08
      38.   Mr. Dichter said (Part 2) 17:42  |  Jimmie 28/02/08
      39.   Mr. Dichter said (Part 3) 17:53  |  Jimmie 28/02/08
      40.   Sad but inevitable 17:53  |  Stephen Murray 28/02/08
      41.   Why does the IDF pretend to only target Hamas 17:55  |  Stephen Murray 28/02/08
      42.   The Gaza Pullout Was a Great Idea.. 17:59  |  Gilad 28/02/08
      43.   Hey Peter 18:05  |  Jimmie 28/02/08
      44.   What Does Israel Expect?????? 18:14  |  Yaakov Sullivan 28/02/08
      45.   Dawn - Judea and Israel 18:15  |  Jimmie 28/02/08
      46.   Olmert wants to wrap up negotiations this year 18:27  |  Jimmy Dhimmi 28/02/08
      47.   Some news for Gilad # 40 18:49  |  Clickfool 28/02/08
      48.   Natallie #2 18:51  |  Chaim 28/02/08
      49.   What do Pals expect? 18:54  |  Sam 28/02/08
      50.   will you please raze gaza now? 19:02  |  frenz 28/02/08
      51.   Stephan Murray 19:03  |  Jimmie 28/02/08
      52.   To 23 Lakshmi 19:04  |  pastaneta 28/02/08
      53.   A NO CONFIDENCE VOTE IS NEEDED AGAINST OLMERT & COMPANY NOW 19:12  |  THE WARRIOR 28/02/08
      54.   What this shows 19:23  |  KUTW 28/02/08
      55.   frenz makes a suggestion that Israel may implement 19:28  |  Yaakov Sullivan 28/02/08
      56.   ?!Sources for #2 GAZA Rockets Olmert & Rice"s responsibility 19:44  |  Michael 28/02/08
      57.   Attention Israeli people: No justice=No Peace (its common sense) 19:48  |  proud palestinian 28/02/08
      58.   Re: #23 19:50  |  Michael 28/02/08
      59.   Honest questions for peace now 20:05  |  paul 28/02/08
      60.   Frenz and Y Sullivan 20:23  |  Jimmie 28/02/08
      61.   POP 21:12  |  judith 28/02/08
      62.   proud palestinian # 55 is it customary for you or your children 21:24  |  terrornator 28/02/08
      63.   Maybe When Tel Aviv is Hit Olmert Will Do Something 21:26  |  Jane 28/02/08
      64.   How do Grad missiles get into `starving" Gaza? 21:42  |  PETER SM 28/02/08
      65.   Proud Pal from Washington DC#55 21:46  |  William 28/02/08
      66.   Proud Palestinian omits right of return to try and fool people 21:48  |  Sam 28/02/08
      67.   Paul#57 - Israel had to make the first step 21:50  |  William 28/02/08
      68.   IDF SHOULD 21:59  |  Davide 28/02/08
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      70.   We must start peace negotiations 22:12  |  Northern 28/02/08
      71.   Rockets being fired at Ashkelon 22:13  |  Dudka 28/02/08
      72.   #49 Frenz good idea but first get the citizenry out 22:18  |  Robert/Montreal 28/02/08
      73.   Next stop: Tel Aviv 22:28  |  Gary 28/02/08
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      75.   A simple way to stop the rockets 23:12  |  Sammy 28/02/08
      76.   #55 - Lies and empty promises 23:18  |  Polybios 28/02/08
      77.   safe from attack 10,000 miles away 23:36  |  Marlboro 28/02/08
      78.   reponse 23:38  |  lolo 28/02/08
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      84.   55 Proud Palestinian,israel must withdraw from ALL occupied 00:51  |  lakshmi 29/02/08
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      88.   #35 Jimmie Please define shelters and describe security 10:54  |  The Archives 29/02/08
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      90.   Bunker busters for the perimeter 12:08  |  MaryRose 29/02/08
      91.   I like it #64 Great idea George 12:16  |  MaryRose 29/02/08
      92.   Stop killing Palestinian children in return for your safety 12:57  |  Javad 29/02/08
      93.   Johnboy 14:09  |  Rab Burns 29/02/08
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      96.   Natallie D. 15:44  |  MGM 29/02/08
      97.   Javad 15:47  |  the truth 29/02/08
      98.   To Sam, No. 48 16:36  |  American Christina 29/02/08
      99.   Stop the sufferings of Sderot. 16:50  |  Jean Van Daem 29/02/08
      100.   My solidarity 16:55  |  KUTW 29/02/08
      101.   My solidarity to the Ashkelon people too (end) 17:02  |  KUTW 29/02/08
      102.   The city may not be prepared 17:05  |  KUTW 29/02/08
      103.   Enough is Enough! 18:37  |  Jabotinsky 29/02/08
      104.   To #3 18:42  |  sam 29/02/08
      105.   a world without terrorizm 18:45  |  issam ghallab 29/02/08
      106.   Who used to live in Ashkelon before 1948? 18:46  |  sam 29/02/08
      107.   Hamas Will die WITHOUT An Invasion 18:47  |  dyinglikeflies 29/02/08
      108.   before Gaza militants fire 13 Qassams at Sderot; 19:37  |  Dav 29/02/08
      109.   This is a GENOCIDE... no other description 20:36  |  Eric 29/02/08
      110.   Easy Solution 21:37  |  David 29/02/08
      111.   Durson - Hamas practically begging for all out war 22:12  |  Joe Sittizen 29/02/08
      112.   Who lived in Ashkelon before 1948? The Jews. 22:30  |  Joe Sittizen 29/02/08
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      114.   Javad # 76 stop killing Palestinian children 23:55  |  Bill H. 29/02/08
      115.   #40; Stephen Murray; Sad but inevitable 23:58  |  Murray of Montreal 29/02/08
      116.   #44 Sullivan; What goes around comes around? 00:25  |  Murray of Montreal 01/03/08
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      119.   Really Ray? 03:11  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
      120.   Stephen Murray 03:13  |  Mark Lincoln 01/03/08
      121.   No Country Would Take This 10:16  |  Guy 01/03/08
      122.   Mark Lincoln 10:36  |  Sarah 01/03/08
      123.   For Peter SM, who really does have difficulty reading # 64 10:57  |  Clickfool 01/03/08
      124.   Not war, Joe Sittizen, but talks # 111 11:05  |  Clickfool 01/03/08
      125.   #111 It may not be very nice Joe 12:21  |  MaryRose 01/03/08
      126.   #107 astute observation, dyinglikeflies 13:09  |  MaryRose 01/03/08
      127.   Eric, do you know what genocide is? Or do you just like the way 13:32  |  MaryRose 01/03/08
      128.   gaza withdrawal good 16:09  |  geroge 01/03/08
      129.   #127 Maryrose 16:25  |  Paul Wood 01/03/08
      130.   ratios again 17:08  |  hollingsworth 01/03/08
      131.   No Country For JackOff Sullivan 17:11  |  Tex 01/03/08
      132.   Gaza`s getting a spring cleaning 17:12  |  Clickfool 01/03/08
      133.   Gaza renders Geneva conventions null and void 17:21  |  bernard ross 01/03/08
      134.   Taling is the only way out of this situation 17:52  |  L A 01/03/08
      135.   #120 Mark Lincoln 18:17  |  Yonatan 01/03/08
      136.   Olmert should temporarily move Govt to Sderot 18:27  |  JaxMax 01/03/08
      137.   Israel can`t give in to exortion 18:35  |  Tamir 01/03/08
      138.   Yaakov reply to Frenz 19:31  |  Avrum 01/03/08
      139.   Serious rebellion 19:39  |  Paul 01/03/08
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      141.   Thank You, Ariel Sharon 19:46  |  Ben Israel 01/03/08
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      151.   PROUD PALADTANI SO SORRY 22:35  |  TOBIA 01/03/08
      152.   POP 22:42  |  TOBIA 01/03/08
      153.   for The Archives 22:49  |  Jimmie 01/03/08
      154.   MaryRose - Bunker Busters 22:52  |  JT 01/03/08
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      158.   Result of Gaza disengagement 23:24  |  Jimmy Dhimmi 01/03/08
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      171.   Let it ring throughout the world - Israel is under attack! 05:15  |  Yered Shmuel 02/03/08
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